Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.